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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie

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Name: Sherman Alexie
Birth Date: 1966
Place of Birth: Wellpinit, Washington, United States
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Native American
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, translator

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Biography of Sherman Alexie
755 words, approx. 2.5 pages
Winner of Washington State Arts Commission poetry and National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowships, Sherman Alexie (born 1966) has published poems, stories, translations, and several books. Sherman Alexie was born in 1966 and grew up in Wellpinit,...
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Biography of Sherman (Joseph), (Jr.) Alexie
5077 words, approx. 16.9 pages
Sherman Alexie is the "Indian du jour" of the mainstream publishing industry, as he notes in his 1995 Tonic interview with Kelly Myers. Alexie has published seven books and three chapbooks in less than five years; while such productivity is remarkable in...
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Biography of Sherman (Joseph), (Jr.) Alexie
4529 words, approx. 15.1 pages
Sherman Alexie's writing has attracted a broad spectrum of readers in a relatively brief span. During his first eight years in publishing, Alexie was awarded the Washington State Arts Commission Poetry Fellowship (1991), the National Endowment for the Ar...
 


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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Summary
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie Sherman J. Alexie, Jr. is of Spokane Indian ancestry on his mother’s side and Coeur d’Alene Indian descent on his father’s. A novelist, short-story writer, poet,...
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Information
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is a 1993 collection of interconnected short stories by Sherman Alexie. The characters and stories in the book, particularly "This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona" provided the basis of Alexie's...


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World Literature Today
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. (book reviews)
03/22/1994: 645 words, approx. 2 pages
Although it is highly uncommon for American writers to be successful at both poetry and fiction, it is the rule rather than the exception for American Indian novelists. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Gerald Vizenor, Louise Erdrich, Leslie Silko, and Linda Hogan have...
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Literature/Film Quarterly
Hurricanes and fires: Chaotics in Sherman Alexie's Smoke Signals and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
01/01/2003: 6,708 words, approx. 22 pages
In his 1972 comments on the Hollywood Western, Tom Engelhardt notes that, regardless of ethnic identity or national origin, movie audiences are meant to identify with white frontiersmen and settlers clustering in the ever-present and vulnerable circle of wagons or fort and to fear...
 


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